Sharks have in the past and perhaps still today, been synonymous as being a ferocious predator which are feared and misunderstood by many (thanks must go to Hollywood for this). However, there is now becoming an increasing feeling of sympathy for them.

Over the last 50 years the population of sharks have considerably decreased, this can largely be attributed to shark finning which is used in the popular Asian dish of shark fin soup. The process of shark finning involves capturing sharks, removing their fins, then returning the shark back into the water, still alive. The discard of shark bodies relates to their relatively small commercial value, therefore making it not worth the cost of transporting them to market. After being discarded the sharks tend to die quickly from suffocation or predation from other fish as a result of reduced mobility. Sonja Fordham the deputy chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Shark Specialist Group (SSG) stated that “the waste and unsustainable mortality associated with finning pose threats to shark populations, fisheries, food security and the sustainability of marine ecosystems”.

The problem is vast, with over 100 million sharks killed annually feeding a industry that is worth over one billion US dollars. An expert from the World Conservation Union in 2008 suggested that ‘species of tiger, bull, dusky and many more besides have plummeted by more than 95% since the 1970′s’. Species of hammerhead sharks such as the great hammerhead and the scalloped hammerhead are also amongst the most endangered species. The IUCN currently has 39 species of sharks world wide listed as threatened (from vulnerable to critically endangered).

On a more positive note, the issue is now becoming globally recognised with countries internationally beginning to prohibited shark finning from taking place in their waters. On the 7th July 2011 Chile announced a ban on shark finning within its national waters, this move has made Chile the front runner in shark protection globally. In other areas such as the EU, United States, Canada, Australia regulations have been implemented to prevent shark finning from occurring. However, a large proportion of international waters are still unregulated and lack in effective monitoring. As a result effective regulating, monitoring and banning of shark finning globally is essential in order to stop various shark species from becoming extinct.

With shark finning becoming an increasingly publicised issue it is starting to attract the attention of well known celebrities such as Gordon Ramsey who made a television documentary in January 2011 called ‘Shark Bait’. Following this documentary a considerable number of people have become aware of the magnitude of the issue and as a result restaurants are now seriously considering having this highly prized delicacy removed from their menus. So the next time you are in a restaurant and you see shark fin soup on the menu remember sharks and their fight to avoid extinction.

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Anthony Kubale completed Marine Biology degree at Swansea University. He now works for Frontier at the London HQ in the research and development team. You can find out more about conservation jobs or volunteer abroad projects by visiting the Frontier website.

Everyone marvels at the child who says “please” and “thank you.” But if yours is one who often forgets the niceties, you might be wondering what you can do to encourage her to say more of those pleasant words you long to hear. There are several ways, maybe you can reference.

Step1

Set a good example. It’s unfair to expect politeness of a child if his parents are not polite themselves.

Step2

Teach your child manners in stages, as his comprehension and skills develop. It probably won’t do any good to ask a 2-year-old to stop chewing with his mouth open; he probably lacks the understanding and physical coordination to comply. But by 4 or 5 years of age, your child should have the ability to grasp the reasoning behind such a rule.

Step3

Start using words and phrases like ‘please,’ ‘thank you,’ ‘excuse me,’ ‘I’m sorry,’ and ‘may I?’ as early as possible around your child. Encourage your child to do the same.

Step4

Take care what language you use around children; they mimic the way adults speak.

Step5

Ask your child to address adults with a certain degree of formality – that is, Ms. Lee, Mrs. Doe, Mr. Smith – unless the adult tells them to do otherwise.

Step6

Bring up the behavior again in private so you can discuss it more thoroughly and make sure your child understands how to behave in the future

Step7

Avoid ignoring bad behavior or waiting to talk about it. Address a rule as soon as your child breaks it.

When Mama comes home, for example, father him a kiss and a hearty “Hi, how was your day?” If Dad were on their way out the door, mother and child him a hug, or say: “Have a nice day, Dad.”

“Please” and “thank you” are words from other well-loved by the parents, if you get your child to eat, add the polite words, you want to ask their use. “Jeannie, s If you please come to the table today.” When she shows him happy by saying “Thank you for coming so quickly.” Their modeling, so that they learn this habit, and when you hear “please”, his praise for him.

Say “Thank You” is a little longer if you want, but usually 4 or 5 years, your child will begin to say. It is helpful to gently remind you that people tend to grant their wishes if they asked politely for things, and was grateful – and it makes people feel good for doing what they estimated.

Another useful word – “sorry” – is probably the most important of all. But parents often over-use of the word, “Betsy Brown Braun, author of Just Tell Me What to Say said. Sensible Tips and Scripts for parents confused Humiliated mistakes of her child, press parents say children, they are unfortunately in the heat of the moment.

“It’s more important is to teach empathy rather than forcing a child to parrot hollow words,” Brown said Brown. “Do not start only ask that your child says sorry to explain why it was doing was wrong.” See how this boy is sad that they took his car, then show him how to do better? Are we to him, his car and give him a tissue ”

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Given high fossil fuels prices and predictions of limited supplies in the future, wind energy is becoming a popular energy platform. Here is a guide to African wind energy.

African Wind Energy

Countries all over the world are looking for cheaper and more ecologically friendly ways to supply their population with energy. With the cost (and pollution levels) of traditional energy sources such as burning coal and other combustible resources being extremely high, countries are forced to look at other, more renewable energy sources to meet their needs. In Africa, countries are looking at alternative sources such as hydroenergy and solar energy. African wind energy is becoming especially important in this search.

Wind energy is one of the cleanest and most effective forms of harnessing a renewable form of energy. To obtain wind energy, large wind turbines, or propellers, are put in areas that receive a lot of wind. These turbines turn with the wind, and then this turning produces enough momentum to charge energy storage cells (such as batteries). This stored energy is then used to produce electricity for homes and entire communities.

One place where African wind energy is being used in large amounts is found in South Africa, in Cape Town. Here, the city has agreed to purchase wind energy generated by a pilot project that is being formed in Darling, a spot that is 50 km outside Cape Town. This deal, valued at about $10 million, is the first fully funded wind project in the country of South Africa. A total of 10 turbines will be installed, and this wind farm should generate around 13,200 MW h of energy, about.2% of the city’s electricity needs.

Most of the energy used in South Africa today is produced by coal burning energy plants. These plants are inefficient, expensive and polluting, so the country is looking for alternatives to energy their homes. Economic growth has also lead to increased demand for electricity in South Africa. Cape Town hopes to obtain at least 10% of their electricity from African wind energy sources by the year 2020. This city is currently dependent on coal energy as well as nuclear energy, and was recently affected by problems in their nearby nuclear plant.

There are other countries on the continent of Africa that are trying pilot wind energy projects, both on large scales and small, home based turbine scales. With the need for electricity in Africa growing as both the economy and population of the continent expands, African wind energy is fast becoming a perfect solution to their energy needs.

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Rick Chapo is with SolarCompanies.com – information on wind power.

A recent trending topic in the Twitter world is #WastelessWed (Wasteless Wednesday). Have you seen this hash tag come up in recent weeks? If you haven’t, be ready to! A new movement has broken into the green space. Wasteless Wednesday is a day to analyze how much we are wasting and together how we can Reduce, Reuse, & Recycle More!
There real question here is why wouldn’t you participate? Perhaps environmental issues are simply not at the forefront of your life. Maybe you just feel that it will take too much of your time for you to be effective. Whatever the reason may be, I am about to show you 3 easy ways to get you started out with Wasteless Wednesday.

TIP 1: Try packing an ‘almost’ litter less lunch! I realize that with all the packaging that comes on food these days it can be difficult to pack a completely litter less lunch (although it is possible). Do you have small re-sealable containers that you could put your lunch in instead of plastic wrap? That is one way you can make a difference on Wasteless Wednesdays. If you are feeling really ambitious with this one, try starting your own small compost in your backyard at home. Any food scraps or peelings you may have had from lunch, put them back in your container and add them to your compost collection container when you get home. You may even find yourself wanting to do it every day of the week after you see the quality of soil composting makes!

TIP 2: Collect your own rain water for plants instead of using your town’s water supply. Setting a rain barrel outside to collect rain water is almost as easy as 1-2-3. 1- You find/buy a good quality rain barrel. 2-Next you will have to place the rain barrel in an open space in your back or front yard. This will be a place that the rain will fall into the rain barrel when it rains. 3- Next Wednesday when you are about to water your gardens with town water, remember you have thirst quenching rain water for your thirsty plants!

TIP 3: Just in case you are starting to think that tips 1 and 2 aren’t for you, we have saved the best or ‘easiest’ for last! Try reusing some paper to make a notepad for your home or office. We have all got emails, mail, or newsletters from schools that get looked at once and then recycled or even worse… thrown away. Instead why not give your scrap paper a second life? You can cut your scrap paper into 4 equal pieces and staple it in the top corner, voila! You now have a perfectly good notepad to keep track of important messages or reminders. Does it get any better? It sure does! Once you are finished with your new notepad, be sure to collect it in a convenient recycling container designed especially for recycled paper collection. Once complete, you will have been environmentally friendly, you have reused paper into a new notepad, and you have done your part on Wasteless Wednesday!

Now that you have eased into the Wasteless Wednesday world, what else can you do to make a difference?

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Chris McBrien is an author focusing on environmental issues and brings years of experience in the recycling container industry to his articles.

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In the last decades, the amount of energy consumption in our world reaches 400 EJ. Most of this energy consumption comes from the fossil energy such as coal, natural gas and crude oil.

As a key component, energy becomes very important for the economic development of the countries. If the energy price is increase the industrial production cost will increase. Moreover, the other problem of energy fulfillment is derived from decreasing of the fossil energy reserve. This year represents the peak of the fossil energy production that means the production of energy will decrease in the future.

To solve the whole energy problem, it is important to diversify the energy, particularly that which is renewable. It is because the use of fossil energy leads to environment issues, in terms of the increase of greenhouse gas which leads to global warming effect such as increasing temperature, rises of volume as well as sea level.

The complex problems mentioned above is challenges for establish the renewable energy in the last decades. Biomass is one of the most important renewable energy resources in the world.

During recent decades, the utilization of biomass has a sufficiently drastic increase. It was due to several factors. First, biomass was a renewable and sustainable resource. The availability of biomass is unlimited if regenerative process of plant run well. Second, the extraction of biomass energy can be carried out more flexible.

Biomass can be burned directly without high technology such as in combustion process. Biomass can also be conversed into gas or liquid through gasification of pyrolysis process. Energy come from biomass is more environment friendly comparing with fossil energy. The emission of carbon dioxide released by biomass will be re-absorbed through a photosynthesis process. It was called carbon neutral. If this occurs the excessive accumulation of carbon dioxide in atmosphere will decrease.

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Nugroho Agung Pambudi has been writing articles including papers for nearly 3 years now. His journal papers can be reached both international journal and conference. Come visit his latest website at http://www.geothermalheatingandcooling.us which help people find information about geothermal heating and cooling

The 1980s gave us many memorable products from the Rubiks Cube and Wispa bar, to the Filofax and mobile phone. It is also the decade in which our attitudes to water were seriously challenged. Bottled water became an aggressively marketed commodity and bottled water coolers began appearing in every office and workplace across the developed world. The water cooler industry was born.

Clever marketers successfully convinced millions to pay for something that they were used to freely consuming from their taps. In an age of rampant consumerism, many people sought to portray an image of success and status, and even water was branded to evoke such qualities. The first successful water brands were invariably French, such as Volvic and Perrier, promising to add a touch of sophistication to your dinner party or restaurant table.

During the 1990s and early 2000s, there was an incredible shift in attitude towards health. As the decadence of the yuppie years waned, the bottled water industry adapted its marketing strategy towards a more health conscious audience. Bottled water was now an essential part of a healthy lifestyle, keeping you well hydrated at the gym, home and workplace. According to the UK trade body, the BBWP, the UK bottled market, including bottled watercoolers, grew from 580m litres in 1993 to 2.06 billion litres in 2008.

However, as education and awareness of the environment, the earth’s natural resources and health has increased, the validity of bottled water has been brought into question. The bottled water industry has a huge carbon footprint from manufacturing through to distribution. Bottled water coolers have an even bigger carbon footprint as they go beyond the initial manufacturing and distribution phases. Empty bottles are collected, transported for cleaning and refilling before being delivered once again in an endless cycle of transport, cleaning and refilling. The user may think that by recycling the bottles they are contributing to the environmental effort, but this is not the case. An enormous amount of water is also used in the manufacturing process, with estimates of between two and six times the actual bottle volume required to produce each bottle of water. The only green water cooler is a mains water cooler, connected directly to the mains water supply with no need for plastic water bottles.

Bisphenol A has been the subject of controversy in recent years following concerns about adverse effects on human health, and particularly babies and children, resulting in bans in several countries and US states. It is used in some of the tougher plastic bottles such as those designed to be reused such as baby bottles and water cooler bottles.

It would seem that the bottled water cooler’s days are numbered, given the overwhelming arguments against their use. Everyone is becoming more conscious of the way they use resources and their impact on the environment, both at a personal and corporate level, and is being increasingly held to account for this too. Given the high quality and regulation of UK tap water, together with the efficacy of sophisticated filter systems within mains water coolers to remove any impurities and chlorine, there is clearly only one water cooler choice for the 2010s.

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Dwindling fresh water resources and exploding populations are creating water shortages worldwide. The sad thing is that most of the water on the Earth is saltwater and unfit for drinking with only 2.8% being deemed suitable for human consumption. People are polluting this small quantity of water faster than it can be cleaned. People in some parts of the world have no choice, because it’s either use the water in the form it’s in or do without. They use the water for their sanitary needs as well as for drinking, even though both humans and animals defecate in the same water. Given their present circumstances, there is no way for them to practice water pollution prevention.

Here in the United States, though, and other developed countries, there is a choice, and we can work to keep more water pollution from happening. There are a lot of things that we do as part of our everyday lives and think nothing about that can cause pollution. Did you ever think about any cleaning products you run down your drain? They contain chemicals, and chemicals pollute water. Maybe individually we don’t create the kind of pollution problems that agriculture and industry do, but we all contribute, and everyone needs to work together to clean up our act and our water.

There are certain types of pollution that we can’t control. We need our sanitary sewers and sewage treatment plants to take care of the tons of human waste that are the normal part of any society. What we can control, however, is individual decisions that can affect water supplies. For instance, if you’re out camping, choosing to use the nearby stream as a toilet is a bad idea. It’s far better to use the bushes where the wastes will be used as fertilizer rather than becoming pollutants in the water.

You might be under the impression that storm sewers carry all of our water to municipal water treatment plants, so you never worry about what might go down them. However, in many areas, the storm sewers only carry the water with the pollutants straight to a river, lake, or stream. If you allow oil and chemicals to wash down the storm drains, you may well just be pumping those pollutants right into our water sources. In the case of water pollution, what you don’t do can make all the difference in the world.

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In 1992, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Jenero proposed an annual International celebration of fresh water . A year later, the United Nations General Assembly designated March 22, 1993 as the first World Water Day. Backing for this new holiday has rapidly spread throughout the world with many people showing their support by refraining from using community provided water sources or enthusiastically participating in viral activities on Facebook.

The United Nations focuses on using this day to promote the UN recommendations for water resources and encouraging themed activities. In 2011, the theme was responding to the growing challenge of providing clean and adequate water to cities. With as many as half of the world’s population living in cities and the population growing exponentially, addressing these concerns is of paramount importance. This urban growth is taking place primarily in poor and developing countries with as many of 40% of the urban expansion creating giant slums. It is projected that until 2020, as many as 27 million people will be moving to urban slums every year. Where will all of these people find safe, clean drinking water?

For many communities, the answer is going to lie in water recycling. By collecting rainwater in tanks & treating to make it potable, it is possible to relieve reliance on the community’s water resources. Often the communities are simply unable to provide adequate piped water, so the people living in poverty or near poverty situations have to make do without. In some areas, water recycling makes it possible to entirely replace the full amount of water with safe drinking water. Not only will this prevent people from drinking water from the polluted bodies of water, it keeps the community from needing to maintain and treat large reservoirs of water.

Water recycling in urban communities is most cost effective when modular water tanks are placed on the roofs. Smaller tanks can be placed underneath the rain gutters below in order to catch the run-off water. Depending on the use of the collected water, it can then be treated for drinking or used directly from the tanks for purposes appropriate for grey water.

Being careful to conserve water is important for everybody, but in poor urban areas, failing to do so will expose everybody to unsafe conditions. Proper water recycling can help keep the communities healthy and thriving. Water recycling will provide clean drinking water and prevent further environmental pollution.

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Some environment friendly countries which believe in saving the endangered reptile species have very strict rules in place when it is about it. Hence you have no other option but to comply with the provisions laid down to make sure your development project is not faced with delays due to legal complications. Reptiles and their habitat can be small or big, harmful or amicable and need protection. We can harm them unintentionally and even they can harm us. Reptile fencing thus ensures our as well as their safety.

Reptiles are of many different types and have equally different type of habitat; it is not possible for a common man to know about all of them and their habitat. Then how do you get reptile fencing done on your development site. If you were thinking that reptile fencing can be done by anyone then you are wrong as many environment friendly factors are to be considered before deciding on how much area should be fenced and which type of fencing should be used for this.

If you want to get reptile fencing done on your site then you will first have to know the spread of reptiles on and around your development site to take the right decision. It means you will have to literally conduct reptile surveys to know what type of reptiles are there and what is there habitat and how or what you can do to comply with the legal provisions related to their safety. This is not something you or your employees can do. Then who can do it for you?

Of course you will need trained ecological consultants who are in good knowledge of all things related to reptile surveys, habitat and provisions to comply with to get the required licenses. Instead of hiring independent ecological consultants it is always better to opt for an ecological consultancy to receive better services. A reputed ecological consultancy with well trained ecological consultants can perform reptile surveys more effectively and also provide some additional services related to legal compliance.

Apart from reptile fencing you can also benefit from many other services provided by Ecological consultancy. Some of the services can be listed as below:

1) Create ponds and install hibernacula to further protect great crested newt and other reptiles

2) Creation of wetland

3) Alter and shift great crested newt and reptile location

4) Creating ponds, ditches and lakes suitable to newt habitat

5) Profiling planting, landscape creation and management

6) Offer both temporary and permanent style reptile fencing

7) Creation of related reptile or newt habitat

Water vole alteration or exclusion

Reptile fencing can be resorted in areas where reptiles are widespread and chances are bright that you might disturb or destroy them intentionally or unintentionally. It works two ways it not only stops you from entering their premises but also stops them from entering your premises and thereby ensures both you and reptiles are happy in their own provinces. Your requirement for ecological consultant services will depend on the findings of the reptile surveys.

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It becomes imperative to opt for reptile fencing with the help of ecological consultancy in some countries of the world where reptiles are protected by law.

The human race is at a stage where if we do not start taking serious steps in lowering CO2 emissions and protecting our environment the face of the planet will change for ever for the worse.
Nothing will bring it back, we need to act now and not tomorrow, we can all do our bit to protect the future.

Human emissions of greenhouse gases are changing the world’s climate. The main greenhouse gas is carbon dioxide (CO2), produced when we burn fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas for energy.

At least 40 per cent of CO2 emissions in the UK come directly from what we do; for example, heating and using electricity in our homes – and driving, flights are the next biggest source emitting CO2 emissions.

Over the past two centuries CO2 Emissions in the atmosphere have risen by a third, to levels unmatched in at least 420,000 years, and probably in the last 20 million years.

To help we don’t have to go out of our way or do anything too straining, it can be the simplest thing from turning of lights or TV’s when not in use or riding a bike to work,

Below are a few Tips on what you can do to help!

Try to reduce household waste

Re-use products or repair and use again

Recycle, Recycle, Recycle

Turn of appliances wen not in use, do not put on standby
Switch to energy saving lightbulbs

Improve your insulation in your home, offices,

Buy Fairtrade

Take a bag with you shopping

Buy recycled products,

Consider wen travelling if it is possible to walk to work or ride a bike into work

Buy a fuel efficient car, you can buy some gorges looking cars that don’t guzzle litres of fuel

Try not to waste food

Buy fresh and in season foods

Use energy efficient appliances for storing and cooking foods

The above tips are just a handful of things we can do to help, allot of it is using your initiative and thinking about what you are doing and how it will effect the environment, buy taking some simple steps you to can help,

The UK government is taking steps to encourage people to become more greener and is offering much advice on how to do this, in fact there is a whole campaign to educate people and make people aware what impact our negligence as a species is having on the environment.

One example of the governments initiative is Gordon Brown will double road tax for the worst polluting 4x4s and sports cars by the next election in a green looking financial package.

It will hit around 225,000 people who have had the so-called tractors registered since last April, as well as people buying new. The cost of their yearly tax disc will rise from ?210 to ?400 and maybe more in the next two years.

But owners of the most fuel-efficient small cars will see their vehicle excise duty halved over the same period.

We sure do hope that you the reader spread the message on that we all need to do our bit to make a change and a change we will make!

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Dave Clark is a freelance article writer and has been in the industry for many years, he has written many books and is very knowledgeable in various fields, Dave also works for Cushy Sofa a supplier of memory foam mattresses, sofas and Divan sets